Surfing the leftist cable nets this AM, I hit MSNBC right at the moment one of their clownish “panels” began discussion of the “need for a national conversation about race”, in the aftermath of the Charleston shooting.
I’m all for such a conversation…the umpteenth one we’ve had every time the left sees an opportunity to push its gun control, more “poverty programs”, reparations, ‘de-privileging’ white Americans, or whatever might pop into the Obama/Sharpton/Valerie Jarrett minds.
This time though, the “conversation” should encompass the full range of race relations issues. It should certainly include discussion of the severe damage Obama, himself, and the “Reverend”, and Eric Holder have done to race relations in the past 6 plus years. Those specific actions by this bunch do not need recounting here.
The “conversation” should also include in-depth discussion of the carefully “unmentioned” and “unmentionable”.
It should include the money and forces behind contrived “outrage” in places like Sanford, FL and Ferguson, the hired mobs, the misinformation, sometimes originating in and/or often promoted by the White House.
Most importantly, the “conversation” should talk about the issues reported on by Colin Flaherty and the subject of his first and now second book on that phenomenon:
The War on Black People in South Carolina: the First Casualty is Truth
Mass murder was not enough. Not for the army of reporters who soon after the South Carolina killings surrounded this truth with a bodyguard of lies.
The shooting was part of a pattern of white on black violence wildly out of proportion, journalists told us over and over. The tragedy also reminded many scribes of the so-called epidemic of arson against black churches in the 1990s.
Neither of which are true.
Insipid media isn’t limited to MSNBC of course. We were also hit with this front page item from the illustrious Quad City Times headline writer. It is the printed edition which we portray. The online edition seems to have nixed emphasis on the particular quote.
Main headline, above the fold
‘I feel like it’s 9-11 again’
The Charleston church killing was a massacre by a deranged individual, it was not organized terrorism.
The usual suspects can be depended on to bash America and call for more gun control measures that won’t work.
President Obama speaking in Europe:
We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.
David Harsanyi writing at he Federalist points out: Actually, President Obama, Mass Killings Aren’t Uncommon In Other Countries
And Sean Davis also at The Federalist today, has this essay No, A Lack Of Gun Control Didn’t Cause The Charleston Shooting
Dr. Alveda C. King, neice of Martin Luther King had this to say
“Every time someone has been shot throughout our history by guns, the first thing is ‘Take up all the guns, remove the guns. If you take away the guns, you stop the violence.’ That’s not true,”
Read more of her comments here and here
DLH with R Mall
I read the “I feel like its 911 again” headline also and shook my head. You won’t here anything from this lady or the Times about the 35 people shot and 6 killed in Chicago over the weekend. I wonder why that is?